Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.